1970 in Italian television
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This is a list of Italian television related events from 1970.
Events
- 26-28 February: Sanremo Festival, hosted by Nuccio Costa and Enrico Maria Salerno. The winners are Adriano Celentano and his wife Claudia Mori, with Chi non lavora non fa l’amore (No work, no sex). The song contains ironic references to the workers' protest of the Hot Autumn, and is perceived as reactionary.[1]
- 17 June: 17'700 Italian viewers stay up until 2 AM to follow the televised “match of the century” Italy v West Germany, commented by Nando Martellini; with the victory of the Italian team unleashing popular enthusiasm.[2] On 21 June, the 1970 FIFA world cup final Italia-Brazil gets the greatest audience of the year, with 28.2 million viewers.[3]
Debuts
- Rischiatutto – quiz, inspired by Jeopardy! and hosted by Mike Buongiorno; five seasons. The show renews the Lascia o raddoppiìa?’s mass success and relaunches the Bongiorno’s career after a period of relative decline; it’s the first RAI 2 program to enter in the top ten of the audience. It’s yet also accused by critics of notionism and sexism (for the decorative role played by the “female valet” Sabina Ciuffini).[4]
Shows of the year
Drama
- I recuperanti (The recoverers) - by Ermanno Olmi; script by Tullio Kezich and Mario Rigoni Stern. In the Forties, a young veteran and an eccentric old man earn a living from the dangerous work to recover remnants of war.[5]
- Le donne balorde (The oafish women) – cycle of satirical one-act plays, written and played by Franca Valeri and directed by Giacomo Colli.[6]
Miniseries
- Antonio Meucci, cittadino toscano, contro il monopolio Bell (The Tuscan citizien Antonio Meucci vs. the Bell monopoly) – biopic by Daniele D’Anza, with Paolo Stoppa in the title role; 3 episodes.
- Le cinque giornate di Milano (Five days of Milan) – by Leandro Castellani, script by Luigi Lunari, with Ugo Pagliai (Count von Hübner), Raoul Grassilli (Carlo Cattaneo) and Arnoldo Foà (Marshal Radetzky); 5 episodes.
- La fantastica storia di Don Chisciotte della Mancia (Don Quijote de la Mancha’s fantastic story) – by Carlo Quartucci, script by Roberto Lerici, from the Miguel de Cervantes’ novel, with Gigi Proietti in the title role; 5 episodes. Aired as a show for children, it’s actually a sophisticated product, taking to television some practices of the avant-garde theatre.[7]
- Marcovaldo – by Giuseppe Bennati, from the Italo Calvino's book, with Nanni Loy in the title role; 6 episodes.
Mystery
- Coralba – by Daniele D’Anza, with Rossano Brazzi and Glauco Mauri; 5 episodes. The story is set in Hamburg, in the world of big pharma
- I giovedì della signora Giulia (Mrs. Julia Thursdays) – by Paolo Nuzzi and Massimo Scaglione, from the Piero Chiara’s novel, with Claudio Gora and the real-life private eye Tom Ponzi (as a police superintendent); 5 episodes. The vanishing of an upper-class lady is the starting point for an enquiry about the secrets of the Lombard provincial life.
- Un certo Harry Brent – from Francis Durbridge’s A man called Harry Brent, by Leonardo Cortese, with Alberto Lupo and Roberto Herlitzka; 6 episodes.[8]
- I racconti di Padre Brown (Father Brown's tales) - by Vittorio Cottafavi, from Gilbert Keith Chesterton, with Renato Rascel in the title role and Arnoldo Foà as Flambeau; in 6 episodes. It's one of the successes of the year; an episode gets 21 million viewiers.[9]
Coralba and I giovedì della signora Giulia are the first Italian mysteries shot in colors (also if, at the time, they are aired in black and white).
Variety
- Canzonissima 1970 – directed by Romolo Siena, hosted by Corrado Mantoni and Raffaella Carrà (who gets success also as a singer, with the title track Ma che musica maestro). The contest is won by Massimo Ranieri with Vent’anni.[10]
News and educational
- I bambini e noi (Children and us) – reportage by Luigi Comencini about infancy in Italy, in 6 episodes.[11]
- Un secolo di lotte contadine in Italia (A century of peasants’ fights in Italy) – historical enquiry by Giorgio Bocca, in one of his very rare collaborations with RAI; in 7 episodes.[12]
- Roma capitale (Rome capital city) – historical enquiry, care of Giovanni Spadolini, for the centenary of the capture of Rome. [13]
References
- ^ "Sanremo 1970". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-11-27.
- ^ "Italia-Germania, la partita del secolo". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-11-27.
- ^ "Auditel Rewind - 1970". TvBlog (in Italian). 2010-08-11. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
- ^ "Rischiatutto '70". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-11-27.
- ^ "I recuperanti". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-11-26.
- ^ "Le donne balorde". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-11-27.
- ^ "La fantastica storia di Don Chisciotte della Mancia". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2021-12-18.
- ^ "Un certo Harry Brent". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-03-18.
- ^ "I racconti di Padre Brown". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-11-26.
- ^ "Canzonissima". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-11-26.
- ^ "I bambini e noi". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-11-27.
- ^ "Lotte contadine - Giorgio Bocca". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-11-27.
- ^ "Roma Capitale". RaiPlay (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-11-27.